Coin-receptacle



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No. 465,649 Patented 1360.22, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

iLl'Y/JOI.) lVAl/IICR ltOBER'lS, Ol? lROtHiC'I'JYN, NEWT YORK.

COIN-RECEPTACLE.

. SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,649, dated December 22, 1891.

Application filed April 24, 1891. Serial No. 390,226. (No model.)

To cz/Z wir/ont it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLwooo WALTER Ron- ERTS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of' l-rooltlyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have in vented certain Anew and useful Improvement in Coin-Recep tacles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in andparticularly to that class of receptacies which is used for collecting and holding coins for charitable, benevolent, or other purposes; and the object ofthe same is to providev a receptacle which is sealed thonghont, so therefrom except by cutting,r the sa1ne,and which is provided vwith a suitable opening or openings for the admission of coins of any convenient size and devicesin its interior for preventing the coin from eniergingfroin the receptacle after it has been, allowed to pass into the same. jects by means of an arrangement of flexible protectingsi1rfaces rcomposed of strips or sheets of paper or other suitable and iiexible material, with or without the use of serrated edges, which flexible surfaces are so arranged spectivel y, a' plan with reference to theeo'pening that they close the saine from the interior and prcvent'the emerging of the coin, and at the saine time permit free access theretofroni the exterior. The invention will be best understood 'by reference tothe accompanying two sheets of drawings, in which'- -Figures 1, 2, and 3 show, respectively, a plan View and two cross-sections of the invention in its most simple form applied to an ordinary envelope. f Figs. 4L, 5, and AG show, re spectively, a plan view and two c-1oss-sect ions of the invention, in connection with serrated edges used on'the protecting-surface applied to an envelope. Figs. 7, 8,- and 9 show, re-` view and two cross-sections f the invention with the use ot double protecting-surfaces, each provided with, broken, curved, or serrated edges, also; applied to au envelope. Figs. 10 and il show thedevice attached to any :is a' pyramid. l

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several lviews.

In cach of the drawings, A represents thc l accomplish these latter ob-A that no coin can be extracted f receptacle of fancy forni such receptacle, which, it will be observed, is sealed at alli ends'in any convenient manner and is made of any convenient material or shape, and is provided with an opening@ in either surface of any convenient size or shape, placed in any convenient position.

In the interior of the receptacle, as shown in Fig. ),is placed a piece or stripB of paper or other suitable material, which strip is guinined or otherwise firmly attached at either end to the surface of the receptacle containing the opening O and immediately behind the same along the lines ai :r and oc, as indicated in Fig. l. f

ln Figs. 3, 6, and 9 of the drawings therelations of the'piece or strip-B to the receptacle and of the two parts b b' of the construction particularly shown' in Figs. 7, 8,'and 9 'are shown slightly in exaggerated forni, in order to show the precise working of the device. In practice, however, the piece or strip and the surface of the receptacle containingr the opening and the two surfaces of the double protecting-surfaces will lie in close proximity to each other and no such space will exist as is shown. The effect of this arran gement of the protecting-surfaces issuch that a coincan readily pass through the opening and down between the fiexihle strip or piece4 and the surface to which the saine is attached; but owing to the fact that the ex tremities of the .strip 'are held in close proxiinity which the opening is the coin will be unable topass hack again between the strip and the surface of the receptacle and emerge through the opening.

In Figsrfi, 5, and'G the strip is precisely the same in construction as that shown i'n Figs. 1 and 2, and it is `attached in the same way, as before, at eithcr'end; but a series of any co'n'- venient number of teeth curves or indentations are provided at the end below the open- ?Iing in the center of the unattached portion,

proiectin-g downward into the receptacle.` Goins will pass readily through the opening, as before, passing down between the strip and the surface ofthe receptacle in which the' opening is placed, but 'will be prevented from passing back again and emergin,r

through theopcning by reason of the sharp edges of the teeth 'y y, which will keep them to or in contact with the surface in` 'roc from passing back in between the strip and the surface containing the opening.

In the form of receptacle shown in Figs. 8 and 9 the protecting device is made double,

composed of two pieces b b', pasted or otherwise attached together at the ends a: as, but not connected in the middle and suspended in the receptacle from av point above the opening on either side, as shown` in Fig. 8, in such a manner that one side of the protect- .ing-surfaces is .attached to the surface in which the coin-opening is placed below the opening, and the otherside is attached on the same surface above the opening or tothe rear surface of the receptacle, so that a coin passing into the opening must pass in and between the two surfaces b b. Each of the two surfaces maybe provided with teeth y y, asbefore, and by means of this construction a coin entering through the opening drops down between the two flexible surfaces into the receptaela'and by Vreason of the close proximity of theteeth and the alternate arrangement of the teeth shown in Fig. 5, it is impossible for the same to pass outward through the opening when the position of the receptacle is reversed. Any number of such teeth may be used and the flexible surfaces may be made of paper, cloth, or other suitable material, according to the natu re of the receptacle. A

i The relative position of the iiexible surfaces with relation to the-walls of the receptacle andthe two parts of the construction shown in Fig. 5 are shown particularly by reference to the cross-section views, and the operation of the invention will be'apparent from the foregoing description.

It will be apparent that the openings may be placed directly upon 'the edge of the re eeptaole when an envelope is used or at any other convenient point without referenceV to its shapeor size, providedvthat it be protected' v by the insertion of the protectingsurfaces within the envelope in the manner above indicat'el. p

' In the form of rece r )tacle` shown in Figs. 10

and l1 avariotgof openings of different sizes may be used in the Various faces of the pyramid. The arrangement of the protecting-sue faces will be infall4 respects the saine, and a double or sngleiiexible surface may be used, as maybe foundmostconvenient.

, In'Figs. 10 and 1l openings are shown on each face of the pyramid and their operation is precisely the same as before.

I claim as my inventionfl. ,In a coin-receputao1c, the combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, with an'pening for the admission of coins in either edge,wall,or face of the receptacle, of a ilexible surface placed within the receptacle, at-

tached at its upper end to one edge of the coin-opening and in contact throughout its width with and attached at both sides to a surface leading up to the opposite edge of said coin-opening, whereby coins passing through the opening and between said surfaces are prevented thereby from returning.

2. In a coinreceptacle, the combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of an opening for the admissionof coins in either edge, wall, or face of the receptacle, a protecting device in the interior of the receptacle, composed of two flexible surfaces in con-` tact with each other, securedV at each side to each other but unattached at the bottom and attached at the top of the coin-opening-to the edges of the same, so that a coinientering therethrough will pass between the iiexible surfaces into the receptacle and be prevented from emerging.` y 4 3. In a coin receptacle, the combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, with an opening for the admission of coinsin either edge, wall, or face' of the receptacle, of a flexible surface having its lower or inner edge serrated, placed vwithin the receptacle, attached at its upper end to one edgeof the con-opening and in contact throughout its width with and attached. at both sides to a surface leading up to the opposite edge of said coin-opening, whereby coins passing through the opening and between the sur faces are prevented thereby from returning. 4. In acoin-'receptacle, the combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of an opening for the admission 'of coins in either edge, wall, orr face of the receptacle, a protecting device in' the interior of. the receptacle, composed of two iiexible surfaces in contact with each other, said surfaces being each serrated ofi their lower or inner edge and secured at each side to each other but unattached at the bottom ahd attached at the top IOO of the coin-opening tothe edges of the same,

so that a coin entering therethrough will pass between the flexible surfaces into the receptacle and be prevented from emerging.

'5. In a coin receptacle the combination, with the connect-ed iiexible strips protecting the opening inv the interior of the receptacle, of a series of teeth or indentations upon the unattached edge of the strips, arranged so that the teeth orindentations so formed shall be alternately opposite to each other.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as `my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 10th day of April,

5 ELWOOD WALTER Witnesses:

AUG. C. Genom Unas. W. IPA-su.

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